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Photos and Short Stories

An archivist uses localized language models to reconstruct the daily life of a forgotten 1970s Indiana food cooperative.

Early computer simulations shaped global policies not through realistic models, but through the physical limits of early magnetic core memory.

Modern cities use invisible code to guide your movement, replacing physical barriers with silent, algorithmic nudges.

We must abandon flat screens to rediscover the physical spaces that shape true human connection and empathy.

An analysis of physical community art projects as durable artifacts of human trust and collective local labor over several decades.

When courts use algorithms to set bail, transparency tools fail. We need adversarial testing, not simulated explanations.

Discover how street art, community gardens, and spontaneous culture act as a human mycelium, saving us from urban isolation.

How merging code and painting murals teach the essential mechanics of compromise, communication, and shared civic infrastructure.

We did not lose our physical neighborhoods to the internet. We simply traded messy streets for flat, gray digital grids.

An examination of how recommendation systems shape attention through spatial design, drawing parallels to historical art gallery layouts.